Chinese surnames

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shū · Shū

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 123
Ancestral seat (junwang)
京兆
Wikidata
Q4527092

In other languages

  • German Shu
  • English Shū
  • Spanish Shu
  • French Shu
  • Korean 수
  • Russian Шу

Notable historical bearers

Deceased people recorded in Wikidata with this family name, ordered by how many Wikipedias cover them.

  • Lao She1899 – 1966

    Chinese writer, novelist and playwright (1899-1966)

  • Shu Xiuwen1915 – 1969

    Chinese actress (1915–1969)

  • Shu Tong1905 – 1998

    Chinese calligrapher and politician

  • Shu Yuanyu791 – 835

    chancellor during the reign of Emperor Wenzong of Tang

  • Shu Shi1916 – 2015

    Chinese actor and film director (1916-2015)

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Sources: the Hundred Family Surnames (public domain) with ancestral seats from the chinese-poetry dataset (MIT); spellings and people from Wikidata (CC0).